#natur

If you stop at Nature, she will elude you forever. ↗

— The Marquis de Sade

#nature

The waters of the stream played the part of the orchestra, and the sunlight provided the dancers. Every now and then a crescendo of wind highlighted the symphony in the clearing by the creek. ↗

— Edward Mooney Jr.

#nature #music

We naturally like what we have been accustomed to, and are attracted towards it. [...] The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views. ↗

— Maimonides

#habit #ideas #opinions #thought #views

Devices which in some curious new way imitate nature are attractive to simple minds. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#simple-minds #nature

We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts. ↗

— Cameron Conaway

#oneness #nature

Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#geology #idaho #landscape #mountains #nature

Believe in human beings - not all are good, but deep down all can be. But that doesn't mean you need to hang around crappy people and try to turn them around. ↗

— Jonas Eriksson

#philosophy #nature

Nature fits all her children with something to do, he who would write and can't write, can surely review. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#review #reviewers #writing #nature

The maid told him that a girl and a child had come looking for him, but since she didn't know them, she hadn't cared to ask them in, and had told them to go on to Mers. "Why didn't you let them in?" asked Germain angrily. "People must be very suspicious in this part of the world, if they won't open the front door to a neighbor." "Well, naturally!" replied the maid. "In a house as rich as this, you have to keep a close watch on things. While the master's away I'm responsible for everything, and I can't just open the door to anyone at all." "That's a mean way to live," said Germain; "I'd rather be poor than live in fear like that. Good-bye to you, miss, and good-bye to this horrible country of yours! ↗

— George Sand

#decency #hospitality #kindness #sense #trust

Air travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ↗

— Al Gore

#nature